Write an average of 500 words per day – I stopped keeping track of my daily writing stats, so that makes this difficult, but looking back at my finished work, I wrote about 162,000 words. That’s only 20k short of my goal, so I’m pretty happy with that.

Submit to more markets and start querying agents again – According to The Submission Grinder and Query Tracker, I sent out 30 short story submissions this year and queried 14 agents.

Try to write (or put a substantial amount of work into) a short story a week – In total, I started 37 short stories this year. Of those, 6 are finished and on submission, 18 are underway, and 14 are outlined. I was hoping for more finished short stories, but I’m not complaining.

Blog more often – I wrote 19 posts this year. This is less than the 23 posts written last year and the 26 posts written the year before that. So I failed that one.

I started off well, at least.

2016’s exercise related goals:

Walk an average of 7,500 steps per day – Nope. I stopped wearing my FitBit at the end of the year, but before that point I only averaged about 4,000 steps per day.

Learn to do a pull up (at least one. Preferably more.) – Nope. In my defense, I got tendinitis in my elbow, but I didn’t get that until November so that’s not the most convincing excuse.

Run a 5k in less than 40 minutes – Didn’t even try.

Send a 5.11 at the rock gym – Haven’t been rock climbing since… not sure when.